The Woman Who Would Have Been Sally Ride: “If the space agency’s people should shoulder some of the blame for the sexism that kept women out of orbit, the prevailing paradigms of the era sure made it easy.”

HowStuffWorks “Top 10 Things That Women Invented”: “When you compile a list of the most famous inventions of the past few centuries, few women will show up as the creators of those items. It’s not that women lack ingenuity or a creative spirit, though; it’s just that women have faced many hurdles in receiving credit for their ideas.”

Canada’s new Starcraft II champion: “Some in the community may have found reasons to say why she doesn’t belong, but not only is Scarlett proving that she does belong, but that she can soundly kick your ass in the process.”

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8 thoughts on “A Linkspam for the People (27th July 2012)”

Awesome…in particular the Sally Ride one. I’ve been long arguing with my daughter’s school against their constant seminars on “girl brains, boy brains”, and the NASA article is an excellent example of how institutionalized gender stereotypes can get in the way of real science. I just posted that to the parent group.

There’s a great article in the Jan 2011 issue of Muse (magazine for kids) about the Mercury 13 — the 13 potential women astronauts whose training was cancelled in 1962. According to one of the women, who met with Pres. Lyndon Johnson to ask him to reinstate the program, Johnson said that if NASA let women be astronauts, next they’d have to let blacks.